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Re: Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library

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The name is a bit close to “ncurses”. Also a screenshot early on would be helpful to illustrate what it can be used for.

There is a screenshot [1]. [1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/gh-...

Are those dots just like a density map/gradient? Or are they real symbols / characters?

Re: Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a screenshot [1]. [1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/gh-...

Are those dots just like a density map/gradient? Or are they real symbols / characters?

Unicode braille symbols

Re: Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a screenshot [1]. [1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/gh-...

Yes, but that’s both fairly far down the page and not really a good example of what an actually application might look like

Here's some examples of pixel art made with the framework.

https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/File:Notcurses-1.0...

https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/File:Pixel-orca.pn...

Very impressive.

Re: Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library

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The FAQ has some interesting entries: Can I use Notcurses in my closed-source program? Notcurses is licensed under Apache2, a demonstration that I have transcended your petty world of material goods, fiat currencies, and closed sources. Implement Microsoft Bob in it. Charge rubes for it. Put it in your ballistic missiles so that you have a nice LED display of said missile's speed and projected yield; right before imp…

Chaotic neutral

Re: Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library

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For the handful slightly fancy TUI applications I wrote, I had some fun in just using raw escape sequences. I really like the buildkit output style, I couldn't figure out how to do something like this – multiline output without a full-term application – with curses, so I did it myself.

Yeah, I built a TUI framework for fun. I was playing with making a TUI browser where everything is rendered server side like html and streamed over grpc.

http://uggly.bytester.net

Re: Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library

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Are those dots just like a density map/gradient? Or are they real symbols / characters?

Unicode braille symbols

Are there devices that can render those as something that blind people can feel?

Re: Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library

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The name is a bit close to “ncurses”. Also a screenshot early on would be helpful to illustrate what it can be used for.

There’s also a yt video showing a demo that can be run after installing notcurses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY Pretty hefty.

Is it able to show actual videos or is that just to make the demo more interesting and inserted externally?

I would like to combine something like this with https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet or some of those ideas.

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